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As if a arland of roses

transformed him into a vision of Oriental beauty His cheeks were the

color of crushed grapes, and his dusky eyes gloith a languishing

fire

"Sapristi!" exclaihcamp had one more touch to add to the picture She took

from the back of her chair a white silken scarf, hich she had

covered her shoulders in the early part of the evening She draped it

across the boy in graceful folds, and in a way to conceal his black,

conventional evening dress He did not see a faint glea eyes at the light through his glass of chane

"Oh! to be able to paint in color rather than in words!" exclai herself in a rhapsodic dreae of Desire Painted with red blood on a ground

of gold'" murmured Gouvernail, under his breath

The effect of the wine upon Victor was to change his accustomed

volubility into silence He see pleasing visions in the a to us?"

"Let hi," offered Mr Merrihed Mrs Merrilass from his hand and held it to his lips

He sipped the wine slowly, and when he had drained the glass she laid it